Ornamental

Pierre Reymond
Plaque with Judgment of Paris
ca. 1540
enamel on copper (Limoges)
British Museum

Raffaellino da Reggio (Raffaele Motta)
Hercules, Minerva and Mars
ca. 1573
drawing
(study for facade fresco in Rome)
British Museum

Pieter Cornelisz van Rijck
Still Life with Two Figures
1622
oil on canvas
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Pier Francesco Mola
Musicians seated on the Ground
before 1666
drawing
British Museum

Michele Rocca
Bathsheba Bathing
1729
oil on canvas
Museumslandschaft, Hessen Kassel

Marco Ricci
Capriccio of Ruins
1730
etching and engraving
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Mary Delany
Acanthus Spinosus
1778
collage, watercolor and gouache on paper
British Museum

Hubert Robert
Cloister of Augustinian Nuns
ca. 1790
oil on canvas
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Johann Heinrich Ramberg
The Genius of the 19th century
receiving Torch from the Genius of the 18th century
1813
drawing
British Museum

Henry Monnier
Les Bienfaiteurs
(series, Galerie Théâtrale)
ca. 1828
hand-colored lithograph
British Museum

Edward Poynter
Figure leaning against Column
ca. 1873
chalk on paper
(study for painting, A Suppliant to Venus)
British Museum

Walter Crane
Fortuna
1874
watercolor and ink on paper
(design for printed greeting card)
British Museum

Albert Robida
Le Prince réveille la Belle au Bois Dormant
ca. 1880
watercolor and ink on paper
private collection

Ethel Reed
Arabella and Araminta Stories
1895
lithograph (poster)
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

e.e. cummings
Noise Number 13
1925
oil on canvas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Elaine De Kooning
Juarez
1958
oil on panel
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Scott Redford
Boy with Surfboard Cross
1999
digital offset print
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Australia

Upon the Loss of His Little Finger

Arithmetic nine digits, and no more,

Admits of; then I still have all my store. 

For what mischance hath ta'en from my left hand

It seems did only for a cipher stand. 

But this I'll say for thee, departed joint,

Thou wert not given to steal, nor pick, nor point

At any in disgrace; but thou didst go

Untimely to thy death only to show

The other members what they once must do:

Hand, arm, leg, thigh, and all must follow too.

Oft didst thou scan my verse, where, if I miss

Henceforth, I will impute the cause to this.

A finger's loss (I speak it not in sport)

Will make a verse a foot too short.

Farewell, dear finger: much I grieve to see

How soon mischance hath made a hand of thee. 

– Thomas Randolph (published 1638)

["hath made a hand of thee" in contemporary slang equated to "hath done away with thee"]